Legendary game company Nintendo will be releasing their newest Wii U game, Wii Party U, to the world tomorrow, October 26. They’re aiming to bring gamers of all ages, skill levels, or levels of experience together for a good time.
Available exclusively for the Wii U, Wii Party U will feature 80 new minigames that utilize the Wii U GamePad and Wii Remote controllers. While supplies last, it will launch as part of the Wii Party U and Wii Remove Plus bundle.
Wii Party U will provide players with a host of game options from the quick 5-minute pick-up-and-play round of Tabletop Football to a full gameshow-like experience with TV Party mode that can take from 20-60 minutes.
Whether a veteran or newcomer, gamers all over will be able to enjoy Wii Party U with friends an family. For more, be sure to check out our Wii Party U gallery below and visit the official website here.
Today marks the day that action sports and internet icon Ken Block partners up with Electronic Arts as a Racing Advisor for the next string of Need For Speed games. Block has a great deal of knowledge in the field of professional racing and vehicles in general so it’s only natural that a company like EA would go searching for someone of his calibre to join a team like theirs in the hopes that they can make their games, not only more realist, but more enjoyable for the years ahead.
Having Block’s insight into the racing world be part of the game’s development is such good news for fans of the game and fans of racing in general, with this addition to the Need For Speed team you can be sure that they will be reaching for new heights and that NFS will be at the top of it’s game for a very long time. The franchise is also sponsoring Block and his Ford Fiesta ST 2013 and will be working along side him for the release of “Gymkhana SIX” which is the next instalment of the viral video franchise which will be released via both YouTube and the Need For Speed website. This is a great time for both racing and gaming fans.
The Game Bakers, the team behind the mobile fighting beat ’em up Combo Crew, have announced today that their game will be receiving four new characters from the Street Fighter universe. After collaborating with Capcom to bring Viewtiful Joe out as a playable character, they’re happy to announced the arrival of Ryu, Ken, Chun-Li, and Blanka. The mobile beat ’em up, where you use your fingers with tap and double-swipe techniques to fight, is a natural fit for Capcom’s stable.
The game is normally available for 1.99$ (1.79€) but to celebrate the new fighters, it will be free this week on the Apple App Store and have a 50% discount on Google Play. Each of the additional characters (including Viewtiful Joe) are available as in-app purchases for 0.99$ (0.89€) each.
To see the new fighters in action, be sure to check out the trailer below this article. You can also nab the game from the Apple App Store and Google Play.
Capcom has just released the next Phoenix Wright Ace Attorney Game; Dual Destinies and already the Phoenix Wright fandom has gone crazy with excitement! The new game for the 3DS boasts upgraded and incredible 3D graphics alongside new stories, cases, characters and so much more.
Phoenix returns with a new assistant, some old friends, some new friends and a very peculiar rival. This game is setting itself up to be extremely Pokemon-like with fans being overwhelmed by how much has changed and how much greater it is making the franchise.For those of us without the game, Capcom Unity has released a brand new trailer which will serve as the launch trailer for the title. This launch trailer can be seen below in our featured video section.
Phoenix Wright Ace Attorney – Dual Destinies is now available on the Nintendo eShop for $39.95 in Australia and $24.99 in America. People who purchase the game from now until the 7th of November will also receive a free set of DLC costumes for characters like Phoenix Wright himself, Apollo Justice and Athena Cykes for free, if you miss the date it’s fine because the costumes will still be available only for a small price which is yet to be outlined.
An additional episode DLC has already been announced, the DLC will have Wright meet Sasha Buckler who happens to be a pirate defending a wale named Orla. It sounds odd in a truly “Phoenix Wright” style and will be available in the coming weeks for an, as of right now, undisclosed priced which we’ll see once it is out for release. Head over to the Nintendo eShop now to purchase the game and “lawsuit up!”.
The Wolf Among Us has gone on to receive some pretty nice scores for its first episode when it was being reviewed and our Review joined in on the praise. With all of this praise and accolades, it makes sense for Telltale Games and Warner Bros. to go ahead and put out a new trailer for the announcement of an iOS and PS Vita version that collected that praise together.
Those wanting to see what everyone is saying about The Wolf Among Us can watch the trailer embedded below. Plus, if you are one of the folks that haven’t checked out Episode 1 yet for yourself, it will be coming to iOS and PS Vita, though no specifics on a release date has been revealed for those versions.
Looking at all those zombies chasing after Nick, isn’t that exactly what love is all about? If not, then you clearly haven’t seen the newest trailer for Dead Rising 3 as it shows off Nick and the zombies to the tune of “Happy Together”. Aw yes, the ridiculous hasn’t been left out of the latest in the Dead Rising series.
From zombies crawling over Nick’s car, to swarming all around him, nothing could say love any better or at least that’s what the new trailer from Capcom Vancouver and Microsoft seems to be saying. But, players should be aware that the feelings are of course unrequited, so be sure to keep Nick out of their reach.
Anyone wanting to see the mash-up of zombies and love song can find it embedded below. Dead Rising 3 is set to launch exclusively alongside the Xbox One on November 22nd, 2013.
Dream Chamber, Anuman Interactive’s latest Adventure game to be published under their Microids label, is now available for the PC, Mac and iPad. Dream Chamber has the player examining their environment with their mouse or touch pad to investigate crimes. Players take the role of main character Charlie Chamber, who divides his time between being a socialite and an inexperienced detective. Charlie has a photographic memory that allows him to backtrack to previous crime scenes to discover new clues, an abilitiy that will surely help him discover the great mysteries behind the initial robbery he is tasked with investigating. Puzzles such as pick locking and putting torn documents back together are part of the challenge and help break up the adventure action.
Dream Chamber is fully dubbed in English with subtitles available in French, German, Spanish and Italian. You can download Dream Chamber for PC from the Zodiac Store; MAC from the App Store for Mac and iPad from the App Store. The game costs $10, $11 and $4.99 respectively.
Earlier today, Tru Blu entertainment, the publishers of Rugby Challenge 2, announced that their brand new sports simulation game, Jonah Lomu Rugby Challenge Gold Edition, has just been released on the iOS App Store. The latest installation in the line of rugby apps named after the New Zealand rugby legend was developed as a compliment to the 2 other apps which can now be updated for free in line with the new release.
Melbourne-based game studio, Wicked Witch, developed the game with the aim of producing an app that lets players take all of the adrenaline and excitement of rugby with them on the go. Featuring everything from quick, customisable matches to a fully fledged international tournament, this app is being hyped as, “the most advanced and feature packed Rugby app ever made,” by Wicked Witch. So, whether you want to represent your country online, or just play with your friends this app is definitely something to consider as a rugby fan.
Jonah Lomu Rugby Challenge Gold Edition is now available for iPad, iPhone, and iPod Touch for $6.49. (download here)
Ubisoft has released some more assets, so players looking forward to the Xbox One exclusive kinect brawler Fighter Within can see a little bit more of the game in action. The trailer this time reveals much more of the gameplay side of the coin than the last teaser that they released to announce the game, but with only gameplay video still nothing has been revealed about what lies behind the curtain in terms of how it will control.
The gameplay trailer isn’t the only thing however as there are also 6 brand new screenshots showing off the highly detailed characters as they beat the crap out of each other. Those wanting to see the trailer can find it embedded below, while those looking to check out the screenshots can see them full-sized by clicking on the images in the gallery below. Fighter Within is set to release when the Xbox One launches on November 22nd, 2013.
Overview
Twin stick shooters have been becoming more abundant and it s easy to see why, the character is able to move about freely, while shooting anything around them. Hexodius is a game that takes the twin stick shooter formula and adds in a few strategy elements to put the focus on preparing for each mission, instead of stumbling through them just to get past. But, are these additions enough to make a splash in the twin stick genre or simply end up weighing it down? Let’s look at what the game has to offer.
Story Hexodius sees a small robot named Fred trying to escape an AI that has gone rogue and of course what better way to escape than to build another robot named B.O.B. specifically designed to combat the evil minions. The story is unfortunately very lacking, suffering from the need to tell a story instead of showing it or letting the player experience it. The dialogue stems mainly from Fred telling the player exactly what is going on, intermittent with the AI cutting in with his evil AI spiel.
The story it seems then is far more the support role than center-stage, but the support doesn’t offer all that much either. In many ways it might have been better if there was no dialogue sitting between the player and the gameplay, as the story begins to get more in the way of the gameplay then supplementing it. Though the story is able to hold out for a good length of time with the number of worlds and missions that are available, it is however only really something that is present as opposed to important.
Gameplay
Split between the hex board style world maps and missions, the gameplay is equally split between exploration and twin stick action. On the world map, players are able to plan out which missions they want to do and in what order, with some of them being completely optional. Some missions reward spell objects like upgrades or abilities, while others hold keys for opening up more of the map towards the world exit. This world map gives an interesting feel to the game, seeming to offer players more choice about where they go and what missions to do, but unfortunately it comes down to being a crapshoot until finding the key to progress or just completing everything anyway.
The missions themselves are broken down into four different types, five is bosses are counted separately. Unfortunately, with the exception of the bonus missions for earning cash, the missions devolve into surviving by shooting all the things, shooting all the things to protect another thing, or shooting all the things while destroying specific things before running out of time. Certainly the addition of new enemies as the player progresses from world to world does add a little bit of freshness, but for the most part this does not hold up across a game of this size.
The one major point to try and switch things up in the game is the upgrades and abilities, as B.O.B. is only able to hold three upgrades and four abilities for a mission. This is meant to be the major aspect of the game, the idea of switching out specific abilities and upgrades for use against the enemies that B.O.B. will be going up against as necessary mission to mission, but it starts to fall short as there are so many combinations that players can quickly get in over their head. Plus it can be difficult to adequately test out different combinations as missions cannot be replayed after completing them, so player have to start a different mission to try a different combo or keep restarting a mission over and over to try them out.
Outside of the story, which does have different so those looking for a challenge can at least find it, the only other mode is Arcade, which pits B.O.B. against waves of enemies with unlimited lives, but limited time trying to get the highest possible score. While this is one of the more different kinds of gameplay, there are only 6 different arenas that players can actually play in. Meaning that the already somewhat repetitive gameplay, might end up being just a bit more repetitive.
Visuals and Audio
For the most part this is one of the areas that Hexodius is able to do well, the worlds that Fred and B.O.B. go to are certainly varied and different with the enemies likewise able to keep the pace. While the audio itself is limited, with no voiceover work and the sound effects mainly shots and explosions, the music is interesting in its own way. It has a nice combination of technoesque and retro game style rhythm, which also has the same sort of variety as the graphics moving world to world.
Overall Hexious is an interesting take on the twin stick genre, with a focus on exploration of the world maps and choosing the upgrades and abilities that work best for different situations. This combination of things just doesn’t seem to work out for the best however, with many instances feeling boring and often dragging on. There is still some fun to be had with the game, but getting to these parts can be somewhat of a chore. This definitely isn’t for everyone, but it does offer a good amount of missions for those that do enjoy it.
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